McKINLEY, William Brown, a Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born in Petersburg, Menard County,
Ill., September 5, 1856; attended the common schools and the University of Illinois at Urbana;
employed as a drug clerk in Springfield, Ill.; engaged in banking in Champaign, Ill., and also in the
building and operation of public utilities and bridges; elected a trustee of the University of Illinois
1902-1905; philanthropist; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1913); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to
the Sixty-third Congress; chairman, Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures (Sixtieth and
Sixty-first Congresses); again elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses
(March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); was not a candidate for reelection, having become a candidate for
Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 and served from March 4,
1921, until his death; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; chairman, Committee on
Manufactures (Sixty-ninth Congress); died in Martinsville, Morgan County, Ind., on December 7,
1926; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Champaign, Ill.